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Earth Sci Vocabulary
Our Dynamic Earth Vocabulary Practice
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| cartographer | a scientist who studies and makes maps |
| constraint | a limitation or restriction; a rule that you cannot break or something that you cannot do while solving an engineering problem |
| continent | one of the seven great landmasses of the Earth; includes Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America |
| criteria | a standard of judgement; a rule for evaluating or testing something |
| dynamic | describes a system that is always changing, even though the changes might be happening slowly |
| Earth | the planet we live on |
| earthquake | a shaking of Earth’s crust caused by rock slabs moving against each other deep below Earth’s crust |
| engineer | someone who designs solutions to problems |
| erosion | the movement of weathered materials by water, wind or ice |
| fossil | the remains or traces of an organism that lived long ago |
| geologic time | the very large period of time that describes the entire history of Earth |
| geologist | a scientist who studies Earth’s structure, composition, forces, history and future |
| glacier | a large body of moving ice that stays frozen all year |
| landform | a natural structure on Earth’s surface |
| legend | an explanation of symbols used on a map; also called a key |
| map | a picture of all or part of the Earth’s surface |
| mountain range | a large, natural elevation of the earth’s surface rising abruptly form the surrounding level land; generally steeper than a hill |
| paleontologist | scientist who studies fossils |
| Pangaea | a continent that existed millions of years ago and was made of all of today’s separate continents joined together |
| plate | a huge piece of Earths’ crust that moves very slowly |
| rock | a solid mixture of minerals that was formed in Earth’s crust |
| soil | a material made of tiny pieces of rock, minerals, and decayed plant and animal matter (humus) |
| stream | a small, narrow river |
| topographic map | a map that shows the shape and elevation of the land surface using contour lines, and shows other land features using symbols and colors |
| volcano | a mountain built up from hardened lava, rocks, and ash that erupted out of the Earth |
| weathering | the breaking down and wearing away of rock |
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